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The draw for Saturday’s event is as follows (note we have one space available):

0700: (01): Iain Lachlan, Bob Everest, Wayne Classen, Tony Benecke
0700: (10): Tim Harford, Chris Patt (G), Peter Boland, Wolf Lennart Didszuhn
0710: (01): Tim Collins, Dean Moss, Mike Belt (G), Sybil (G)
0710: (10): Mazen Qursha, Shezanne Cassim, James Walters, David Evans (G)
0720: (01): Ted Green, Kader Tazerout, Peter Boylan, John Reavy
0720: (10): Frank Bishop, Neil Bishop (G), Paul Stump, Jaco Rudolph (G)
0730: (01): Gary Hansford, Rosie Hansford, Trevor Sanders (G),
0730: (10): Gavin Hitzeroth, Antony Gilliam, Dave Ladd-Thomas, Richard Appleton (G)

Event details are as indicated below:

Date: Saturday 11th February
Time: 0700 (Rolling)
Venue: Arabian Ranches
Cost: Dhs 200 for Members; (Dhs 300 for Guests)

Please note, the usual conditions apply (i.e. “no-shows” will be charged a penalty of Dhs 300 irrespective of reason and/or whether we can fill your slot with a reserve - Society Members are responsible for their guests in this instance also).

See you there!

Dear All,

We have noticed a growing trend of either late cancellations (cancelling once registration for an event has closed) and “no-shows” (Society Members or guests of Members not turning up on the day of an event). Although we acknowledge that there are genuine reasons for this happening, this has an impact on both the finances of the Society (unless we have reserves or are able to “phone a friend” to accommodate, more often than not we are charged for the slot) and the overall structure of an event.

Therefore, the Committee have decided to implement a penalty of Dhs 300 for any late cancellation or “no-show”, irrespective of reasons and/or whether we are able to fill the slot with reserves - note, if the cancellation and/or “no-show” is a guest of a Member, then the Member is responsible for the payment of the fine. Furthermore, the Member will not be able to register for future events until the fine is paid.

We understand that this is a draconian measure, but feel that we need to nip this growing trend in the bud to ensure fairness and hope you all understand the reasons for us taking this stance.

Kind regards,

Committee Emirates Golf Society

The draw for tomorrow evening’s event at the Faldo is as shown below:

1735: (1): Tim Collins, Steve Allen, Dean Moss, Mike Belt
1735: (10): Kader Tazerout, Ted Green, Peter Boland, Mike Wells
1745: (1): James Walters, David Evans (g), Tim Harford, Chris Patt (g)
1745: (10): Archie Gemmell, Ian Savage (g), Terry Harman (g), Darren McDonald (g)
1755: (1): Steven Batchelor, Philip Bray (g), Ian Courtiff (g), Antony Gilliam
1755: (10): Paul Stump, Aric Ault (g), Matthew Bazeley, Adam Priestley

To expedite the process we will have a small prize giving straight afterwards in the bar downstairs - if you could hand me your scorecards in the bar straight after your round, that would be much appreciated.

We will be playing the blue tees and we have small prizes for the top three players and four NTPs.

Event details are as detailed below:

Date: Sunday, 22nd January
Time: 1735 rolling (see above)
Venue: Faldo
Cost: Dhs 295 for Members; (Dhs 295 for Guests)

As always, the usual conditions apply - last minute cancellations and “no shows” will pay the full unsubsidised rate.

Ken Schultz and his Boeing colleagues hosted yet another great Society Day at the Faldo on Saturday. As always, the format was a Texas Scramble and as all players were allowed to take the \"best\" drive, it made for some spectacularly low scores. Therefore, with a score of 59.2 the team of Steve Allen, Carl Brandenberg, Christian Futschick and Leo Fewtrell took the spoils and all received a Callaway Hawk Driver as a reward. Following closely behind with a score of 61.6 were the team of Tim Collins, James Taplin, Peter Kesby and Peter Boylan, who were all given Callaway Hawk 3-woods as prizes. The third-placed team on 61.7 (only 0.1 behind the second-placed team) were given Callaway hybrids and consisted of Dave Moore, Darryl Atkins, Dave Ladd-Thomas and Swarm Singh. Finally, the fourth placed team of Craig Williams, Dean Moss, Didier Saunders and Jacques Cloete on 62.6 were awarded Odyssey Putters.

The \"nearest-the-pin\" prizes were won by Matt Bazeley (hole 8) and Kader Tazerout (hole 12) who received a dozen Titleist Pro V1s for their great shots. Tony Benecke won the longest drive with a massive hit on hole 16 and Tim Collins won the straightest drive on hole 18 - both won a Callaway Laser Rangefinder.

Congratulations to Paul Nightingale who has won (for the fifth time consecutively?) the Club Championship at the, I must say, perfectly manicured Majlis course at Emirates Golf Club. Paul came in with an impressive 78 beating his nearest rival Dave Loftus by two shots (who won the Net prize). Iain Lachlan came third, carding an 81.
 
As mentioned, David won the net prize who (with a host of others) carded a net 73. Matthew Bazeley came second and David Ladd-Thomas third, based on a count-back of the back nines.
 
Nearest-the-pins were won by: Guenter Hirsch (4th hole), Franck Michaud (7th and 11th holes) and Didier Saunders (15th hole).
 
Again, many thanks to Duncan Davies from Emirates Flight Catering who kindly sponsors our premier event of the season.

Summer Challenge Results

Many congratulations to Didier Sanders who won this years Summer Challenge event - his best two scores, both 37 points, at the second and third event combining to give 74 points was to prove unassailable by the chasing pack at the last event. Great golf in hot and humid conditions!

On the day, the individual event was won by Adam Moore, a guest with 37 points. He was closely followed by Steve Allen on 36 points and Didier (again, though not reaching his previous heights) with 33 points. NTPs were won by Archie Gemmell, Steve Allen, Mazen Qursha and Craig Williams.

Many thanks to all those who joined and made the Summer events so successful.

Winter Schedule

Please note, our winter schedule is now nearly upon us, and the first of these - the EKFC Club Championship - is now open for registration on the website. Please note, these next five events are our “premier”” events, which are heavily sponsored to our members and thus registration is now only available to fully “paid-up” members of the Society. Places will be limited and thus registration should be made as early as possible. With this in mind, spaces for guests will also be limited, though we will always try to accommodate if we can (though they will not be able to win prizes apart from NTPs).

Fri 21 Oct: EKFC Club Championship at Majlis, Emirates GC. Dhs 170.
Fri 11 Nov: Boeing Golf Day at Faldo, Emirates GC. Dhs 170.
Fri 16 Dec: OnAir Golf Day 1 at Earth, Jumeirah Golf Estates. Dhs 200.
Sat 14 Jan: OnAir Golf Day 2 at Fire, Jumeirah Golf Estates. Dhs 200.
Feb: EGS Captain’s Day. Still planning.

The draw for this weekend�s final event of the Summer Challenge event is below.

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1: Paul Nightingale ,Richard Ford (G) ,Dave Loftus , Kevin Creane
2: Duncan Alexander ,Steve Allen ,Antony Gilliam, Mazen Qursha
3: Wayne Classen ,Jacques Cloete ,Didier Sanders, Trevor Sanders (G)
4: Tim Harford ,Chris Patt (G) ,Simon Mackenzie, Stephen Holl
5: Paul Stump ,Aric Ault (G) ,Jaco Rudolph (G), Kevin Lueders (G)
6: Gavin Hitzeroth ,Adam Moore (G) ,Leo Fewtrell, Kader Tazerout
7: Andrew Griffiths ,Christopher Farrell ,Gary McGouran, Peter Kesby
8: Patricia Pargiter ,Kerry Smeda ,Boyd Edmondson (G), Craig Williams
9: David Manners ,Rajiv Khatwani ,Archie Gemmell, Graeme Macintosh (G)

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Details of the event are:

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Date: Saturday 17th September
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\r\nSponsor: EGS
\r\nVenue: Dubai Creek
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\r\nPrice: Dhs 200 (Guests Dhs 300). Note price includes buffet meal afterwards.

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Please note, the usual conditions apply (i.e. �no-shows� and cancellations once registration is closed will be charged the full, non-subsidised rate).

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Hope to see you all there!

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It was a hot and humid day at the Creek for the third of our four Summer Challenges, though there were still some good scores…. Didier Sanders (37 points), Peter Boylan (36 points) and Paul Nightingale (34 points) took the major spoils on Saturday. NTPs were won by Stephen Holl, Mike Belt, Matt Bazeley and Craig Williams.

The winners for our previous event (second of the four Summer Challenge events) at the Faldo were: Leonard Thagarajan (39 points), Gary McGouran (37 points) and Dylan Mustard (37 points) respectively. NTPs were won by Mazen Qursha and Tony Benecke.

The overall winner of the Summer Challenge is the EGS member (non-Guest) with the best two scores over the course of the four events. Therefore, with one event still to play for, one good score would make all the difference! The current leaders are: Didier Sanders (74 points), Peter Boylan (71 points) and Gary McGouran (67 points).

Note: We have yet to distribute the prizes for these last two events, though we plan to do this at our last event in September.